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You need to go to the set up tab, miscellaneous section for the reminder setup. Create each reminder with the first date it is to be displayed and the frequency that it is to be repeated.
The dashboard reminder list was intended to show a list of tasks that are due to be completed in the next day or so. When an item is ticked as completed, it resets the date to the next date it's due and removes it from the display.
I kept forgetting to send to the tax office my employee tax return that's due every month. Damn tax office in NZ does not send out reminders if you file electronically. Also, one of my users needed a reminder of all the steps involved in processing the payroll, so the reminder for that lists each step that has to be completed, from opening a new pay period, entering hours, creating direct credit file for bank, creating journals for ledger, then importing direct credits in banking system and importing journals into FA.

Have you selected your options in the set up tab, miscellaneous, paypal import setup screen?
You should have a bank account set up to receive all the paypal transactions. Set that account plus others for sales and withdrawals bank account in the import set up form.
I wrote this module for my own use, and although it works ok for me, I know that there are variations in the way paypal formats the transactions file in their download history section. You may find that the format for your country does not work.

Hello Berctain
All of the dashboard widgets are located in the folder: modules/dashboard/widgets. Each widget is a separate php file and contains all the logic to render the widget, and to prompt and validate any parameters specific to it's requirements.

Sorry, I thought it would be immediately visible through Google, it's: http://code.google.com/p/fa-dashboard-module/

Hi Elax
The intention of the accordion menu was to reduce the page height and need to scroll to find a menu option. The alternative was a tree structure with a click on the category displaying a list to the right of the options within that category. I was hoping that for most usage the first category's list of items would be the most often clicked but I'm not sure that is true in practice. Perhaps it would be a good idea to make the style of the menu user configurable, and also to make the colours and style editable. You'd have to edit the file default.css in ~/themes/dashboard to change colours at the moment.

It should be reasonably easy to add new widgets. All the available ones are in the ~/modules/dashboard/widgets folder with a separate source file for each widget. The file contains a class with functions to render the widget, plus functions to prompt for and validate parameters required just for that widget. The dashboard setup screen calls the function in the selected widget class to dynamically display prompts for that widget.

In the hooks module in ~/modules/dashboard it uses a function added for the dashboard application which adds widgets to the list of available widgets in a similar fashion the add_?app_function adds modules to FA. The add_widget function receives the internal class name for the widget, a description to be displayed in selection lists, the path to the source file and a security code.

I'm not sure about the git or hg repository. I guess the core developers can choose to include it in the FA source repository if they wish.

There was a dashboard tab in an early iteration because the module adds a new application to FA. It is hidden by the dashboard theme render module (~/themes/dashboard/renderer.php). Originally, only the dashboard tab displayed widgets, but by moving the menu to the side, it made more sense to make every application tab a dashboard and hide the dashboard tab itself. I forgot to hide it from the application list in the dashboard set up form.

All the widgets are rendered on page load. It seemed too difficult to render on demand, especially in response  to widgets being minimized and maximized. At the moment it does handle a ajax call to save the changed widget settings, but refreshing individual widgets at that time seemed too hard.

Have a look through some of the supplied widgets in ~/modules/dashboard/widgets. The ones I copied from Joe's executive theme use the built-in graphics, but the daily and weekly sales widgets I wanted for my own use, do use Google Chart to display column and line charts.

I suspect that this is going to be a work in progress. It was intended to be extendable. I'm happy to help anyone to would like to make changes to it.

Alastair

Hi Chris
I think this a FA problem prior to the current 2.3.15 release. It fails to run the update.sql during the module activation to create the database tables it needs. If you have the facilities to do so, either run the update.sql in /modules/dashboard/sql directly in a mySQL admin utility, such as phpmyAdmin or upgrade to 2.3.15 and then activate the module.